Celia Green
Celia Elizabeth Green (born 26 November 1935) is a British writer on
philosophical skepticism and psychology.Contents1 Biography
2 Philosophy2.1 General
2.2 Ethics
2.3 Empirical research
2.4 Aphorisms3 Publications
4 CDs
5 References and notes
6 See also
7 External linksBiography[edit]
Green's parents were both primary school teachers, who together
authored a series of geography textbooks which became known as The
Green Geographies.[1]
She was educated first at the Ursuline Convent in Ilford, and later at
the Woodford High School for Girls, a state school. In a book, Letters
from Exile,[2] she compared these two schools and made conclusions
that preferred parentally financed to state education. She won the
Senior Open Scholarship to
Somerville College, OxfordSomerville College, Oxford aged 17.
In 1960 she was awarded a B.Litt. degree from Oxford University's
faculty of Literae Humaniores (Philosophy), for a thesis, supervised
by H. H
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Categorical Imperative
The categorical imperative (German: kategorischer Imperativ) is the
central philosophical concept in the deontological moral philosophy of
Immanuel Kant. Introduced in Kant's 1785 Groundwork of the Metaphysics
of Morals, it may be defined as a way of evaluating motivations for
action.
According to Kant, human beings occupy a special place in creation,
and morality can be summed up in an imperative, or ultimate
commandment of reason, from which all duties and obligations derive.
He defined an imperative as any proposition declaring a certain action
(or inaction) to be necessary.
HypotheticalHypothetical imperatives apply to someone who wishes to attain certain
ends. For example:If I wish to quench my thirst, I must drink something.
If I wish to pass this exam, I must study.A categorical imperative, on the other hand, denotes an absolute,
unconditional requirement that must be obeyed in all circumstances and
is justified as an end in itself
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Libertarian Alliance
The Libertarian Alliance (LA) was a libertarian think tank in the UK,
which advocated the abolition of taxation and government intervention
in economic and social life.[1] The Libertarian Alliance was dissolved
in June 2017, and its successor organisation, Mises UK, owns the
Libertarian Alliance Archives, which "include nearly 800 pamphlets in
print and from more than 150 authors".[2]Contents1 Early history
2 After 19822.1 The Tame Libertarian Alliance
2.2 The McDonagh Libertarian Alliance3 ReferencesEarly history[edit]
With ancestral ties to the Liberty and Property Defence League of Lord
Elcho and Sir Ernest Benn's Society of Individualists, the LA was
founded in the 1970s by Mark Brady, Judy Englander, David Ramsay
Steele and Chris Tame in Woking. It was an alliance of libertarians,
minarchists, anarchists, and classical liberals
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Extra-sensory Perception
Extrasensory perception, ESP or Esper, also called sixth sense or
second sight, includes claimed reception of information not gained
through the recognized physical senses but sensed with the mind. The
term was adopted by Duke University psychologist J. B. Rhine to denote
psychic abilities such as intuition, telepathy, psychometry,
clairaudience, and clairvoyance, and their trans-temporal operation as
precognition or retrocognition.[1]
Parapsychology is the study of paranormal psychic phenomena, including
ESP
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Renée Haynes
Renée Oriana Haynes (23 July 1906 - 1994), also known as Renée
Tickell was a British novelist and psychical researcher.[1][2]Contents1 Biography
2 Reception
3 Publications
4 See also
5 ReferencesBiography[edit]
Haynes was born in London and attended St Hugh's College, Oxford
receiving a BA and majors in law and history. Haynes worked with the
British Council as a director of book reviews. She joined the Society
for Psychical Research (SPR) in 1946 and edited the society's journal
from 1970 to 1981.[1] She was the daughter of E. S. P. Haynes and
Oriana Huxley Waller
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Rapid Eye Movement SleepRapid eye movement sleepRapid eye movement sleep (REM sleep, REMS) is a unique phase of sleep
in mammals and birds, distinguishable by random/rapid movement of the
eyes, accompanied with low muscle tone throughout the body, and the
propensity of the sleeper to dream vividly.
The REM phase is also known as paradoxical sleep (PS) and sometimes
desynchronized sleep because of physiological similarities to waking
states, including rapid, low-voltage desynchronized brain waves.
Electrical and chemical activity regulating this phase seems to
originate in the brain stem and is characterized most notably by an
abundance of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, combined with a
nearly complete absence of monoamine neurotransmitters histamine,
serotonin, and norepinephrine.
REM sleep is physiologically different from the other phases of sleep,
which are collectively referred to as non-REM sleep (NREM sleep,
NREMS, synchronized sleep)
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International Standard Name Identifier
The
International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is an identifier for
uniquely identifying the public identities of contributors to media
content such as books, television programmes, and newspaper articles.
Such an identifier consists of 16 digits. It can optionally be
displayed as divided into four blocks.
It was developed under the auspices of the International Organization
for Standardization (ISO) as Draft International Standard 27729; the
valid standard was published on 15 March 2012
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PsychologyPsychologyPsychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious
and unconscious phenomena, as well as thought. It is an academic
discipline of immense scope and diverse interests that, when taken
together, seek an understanding of the emergent properties of brains,
and all the variety of epiphenomena they manifest. As a social science
it aims to understand individuals and groups by establishing general
principles and researching specific cases.[1][2]
In this field, a professional practitioner or researcher is called a
psychologist and can be classified as a social, behavioral, or
cognitive scientist
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Immanuel KantImmanuel KantImmanuel Kant (/kænt/;[8] German: [ɪˈmaːnu̯eːl kant]; 22 April
1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher who is a
central figure in modern philosophy.[9] Kant argues that the human
mind creates the structure of human experience, that reason is the
source of morality, that aesthetics arises from a faculty of
disinterested judgment, that space and time are forms of human
sensibility, and that the world as it is "in-itself" is independent of
humanity's concepts of it. Kant took himself to have effected a
"Copernican revolution" in philosophy, akin to Copernicus' reversal of
the age-old belief that the sun revolves around the earth
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Paul Tillich
Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was
a German-American Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran
ProtestantProtestant theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most
influential theologians of the twentieth century.[2]
Among the general public, he is best known for his works The Courage
to Be (1952) and Dynamics of
FaithFaith (1957), which introduced issues of
theology and modern culture to a general readership
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LibertarianismLibertarianismLibertarianism (from Latin: libertas, meaning "freedom") is a
collection of political philosophies and movements that uphold liberty
as a core principle.[1] Libertarians seek to maximize political
freedom and autonomy, emphasizing freedom of choice, voluntary
association, and individual judgment; they believe in individual
rights.[2][3][4] Libertarians share a skepticism of authority and
state power, but they diverge on the scope of their opposition to
existing political and economic systems
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Epigram
An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes
surprising or satirical statement. The word is derived from the Greek:
ἐπίγραμμα epigramma "inscription" from ἐπιγράφειν
epigraphein "to write on, to inscribe",[1] and the literary device has
been employed for over two millennia.
The presence of wit or sarcasm tends to distinguish non-poetic
epigrams from aphorisms and adages, which may lack them.Contents1 Ancient Greek
2 Ancient Roman
3 English
4 Poetic
5 See also
6 Notes
7 External linksAncient Greek[edit]
The Greek tradition of epigrams began as poems inscribed on votive
offerings at sanctuaries – including statues of
athletes – and on funerary monuments, for example "Go tell it
to the Spartans, passersby...". These original epigrams did the same
job as a short prose text might have done, but in verse
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